Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 09:50:15 -0500 From: Mike A <mikea@mikea.ath.cx> To: Fabian Wenk <fabian@wenks.ch> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bug Report: IBM x3650M4 (32GB, 2x4-core Xeon E5-2600, IBM ServeRaid M5110e): fails in install with NMI Message-ID: <20120828145015.GC64344@mikea.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <503CD8B2.90306@wenks.ch> References: <20120827203817.GB44988@mikea.ath.cx> <201208280934.14161.jhb@freebsd.org> <20120828140507.GB64344@mikea.ath.cx> <503CD8B2.90306@wenks.ch>
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On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 04:41:54PM +0200, Fabian Wenk wrote: > Hello Mike > > On 28.08.2012 16:05, Mike A wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 09:34:14AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > >> > >> Does setting 'hint.mpt.0.msi_enable=0' in the loader make a difference? > > > I will be happy to try that, but need guidance. This is an install from > > CD (burned from FreeBSD-9.1-RC1-amd64-disc1.iso), and I don't know how to > > insert a loader hint in that process. > > On the installed system create, or edit, the file > /boot/loader.conf and add the line like this: > > hint.mpt.0.msi_enable="0" > > Then you need to reboot to test. I would happily do precisely that, if only I could get the system to install. The failure occurs during boot of the install CDROM, before bsdinstall ever gets started. I suspect that I need to do something like the following: Read in the entire boot CDROM to a directory tree using rsync or equivalent; Edit the boot loader hints file to add that hint; Make an ISO out of the directory tree; Burn it to CDROM; and Try again. If this is flawed, please say where and how. Thanks! -- Mike Andrews, W5EGO mikea@mikea.ath.cx Tired old sysadmin
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